It took me awhile to get started on the whole peer to peer thing. I was just like everyone else when it came to this stuff. It took an old intern at Indigo to finally get me in, and when I got in there was no turning back. Now, I started with MySpace as most people do. It’s easy and fun and once you start customizing, it’s over. You are hooked. Then you find your friends from high school, old jobs, kindergarten, then your Mom joins. Wow. Anyway Peer to Peer networks are the best thing since the internet.
OK, like I had said, I started on MySpace. I dug MySpace for a really long time before I even considered joining Facebook. I felt that if I stuck with the most popular network, then the other one would eventually fade away. I was wrong. Plus, you can’t have Pepsi without Coke right? So I joined Facebook and ended up finding all the people I couldn’t seem to find on MySpace. The other half of the world. I also found that this Facebook thing might not be fading at all. It might be MySpace that will be doing the fading. Or at least transitioning.
Ok, I like MySpace. It’s easy, functional, easy to find people you know, and everyone, I MEAN EVERYONE, has a MySpace. This is because it is so easy to use. But from what I have learned this is also it’s downfall. You can update, customize, change, modify, and pretty much do anything to your MySpace page. You can change your entire page to not even remotely resemble anything close to MySpace page and that’s ok. There are no restrictions. This lets all those teenyboppers and crazy kids that have no idea what they are doing pt tons of crap all over their page. They add songs and galleries and widgets and applications and on and on and on. It get so bad that you don’t even want to visit their page cause it’s just annoying. All in all, MySpace is good, but it’s too easily customizable.
Now, Facebook isn’t perfect either. I still don’t really understand it, but the one thing I like is that you can’t mix up the look of the pages. I mean, you can add widgets and applications, but none of that ever effects your viewer. I mean, you can read someone’s app’s but you don’t have to if you want to write them a message. It’s simple and i like that. On the other hand, it’s straight ugly. The newest update has done wonders for it, but it still needs some work. The worst thing about Facebook is it’s horrible user interface. Frankly, it’s too hard. The layout is confusing and retared. I swear it takes me five minutes to find my notifications half the time. The Instant Messenger thing is cool, but why is it at the bottom of the screen? The inbox is great, but too hard to find and not clear enough when you have a new message.
If I had to suggest either MySpace or Facebook, I would have to say both. There are a ton of different people on both. I believe though that MySpace will soon evolve to where it began. Bands. It will soon only be bands and Facebook will be for everyone else. If I had to bet though, I think that there will be a new Peer2Peer network that will come out and blow them both away. There are too many things fixable on both. MySpace needs to ton down and facebook needs to function better. The problem is is that they already started and now they can’t make that drastic change in order to progress. (Sounds like our government)